Conradijn Cunaeus

Conradijn Cunaeus studied at Royal Academy of Visual Arts (Amsterdam). Training under Nicolaas Pieneman is recorded. Works named in the authority record are Hunting Companions and The Two Friends. Work by Conradijn Cunaeus is recorded in the collections of Amsterdam Museum, Fries Museum, Rijksmuseum, Groninger Museum and Touchstones Rochdale.

• Name — Conradijn Cunaeus • Born — 1 November 1828 • Birthplace — Dendermonde, United Kingdom of the Netherlands • Died — 5 September 1895 • Place of death — Nieuwer-Amstel Conradijn Cunaeus (1828–1895) was a Dutch animalier painter and lithographer.

Cunaeus was born on 1 November 1828 in Dendermonde, which at that time was in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. He studied at the Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam from 1844 to 1849, and also under Nicolaas Pieneman. He lived from 1854 to 1868 in Koudekerk aan den Rijn, from 1870 to 1888 in Amsterdam, and thereafter in the former municipality of Nieuwer-Amstel on the outskirts of Amsterdam. He died there on 5 September 1895.

He was principally a painter of animals, particularly of dogs; he also painted landscapes with figures, hunting and mountain scenes, interiors and genre paintings. He worked in oils and in watercolour, and made drawings and lithographs. • Illustration — Hunting Companions, 1860, in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam • Illustration — Elephas maximus, print, 1849, in the collections of the University of Amsterdam

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